(Bloomberg) -- Russia said a warship at the eastern Crimean port of Feodosia had been damaged in a Ukrainian missile strike that targeted a fleet used to launch attacks on Ukrainian cities.

The Russian Defense Ministry didn’t specify the extent of damage to the landing ship Novocherkassk, according to the state RIA Novosti news service. One person was killed and two wounded in Feodosia, the Russia-installed Crimea Governor Sergei Aksyonov said on his Telegram channel Tuesday. 

Ukraine is challenging Russia’s naval superiority in the region despite lacking warships of its own by relying on missiles and unmanned maritime drones. Ukraine’s air defense said on Telegram it attacked the Novocherkassk with cruise missiles around 2:30 a.m. local time.

Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014, has been the target of Ukrainian drone and missile attacks for months. 

The Kerch Strait bridge linking mainland Russia to the peninsula was partially damaged in July, while in September Ukraine hit another shipyard on the western coast of the peninsula, damaging two navy vessels.

Shortly after that, Ukraine struck the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in the port city of Sevastopol, damaging the building and prompting Russia to relocate vessels to the other nearby ports, including Feodosia. Last month Ukrainian missiles struck a vessel at a shipyard in Kerch on the Crimean Peninsula. 

A series of successful attacks at Russian military ships allowed Ukraine to open alternative path to export grain by the Black Sea after Russia pulled out from a deal brokered by the United Nations and Turkey. Ukraine shipped 10 million tons of commodities, mostly grains, through the passage since August.

Separately, Ukraine’s General Staff said the country’s air defense shot down 13 of 19 Shahed-type drones that were launched by Russia overnight from Crimea and its territory on the eastern shore of the Sea of Azov. 

The attacks struck an infrastructure facility, causing a fire near Odesa, and damaged a storage building in the southern Mykolayiv region.

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